Revised class specifications are provided for professional staffing in public libraries of various sizes in New York state. Descriptions are provided for each job within the civil service hierarchy: library assistant, library trainee, librarian I-IV (including special services), and the various grades of library assistant director and director.…

This report, more than a year in the making and informed by over 50 interviews with employers, educators, and local and national policymakers, details both the growing problem of disconnected youth in New York City and what it will take to redirect them toward career-track employment and family-supporting incomes. The centerpiece of this study is…